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The GORDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,140 7420 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 804 6514 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +3336 -906 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 6 134201 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33489 0 0
Top States for GORDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 635 1816 0.008 78
Texas 389 5685 0.002 19
Maryland 265 2561 0.005 50
Louisiana 235 2732 0.005 53
Florida 227 9081 0.001 14
Top States for GORDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 171 870 0.022 218
Georgia 635 1816 0.008 78
Louisiana 235 2732 0.005 53
Maryland 265 2561 0.005 50
Alabama 159 3822 0.004 36

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GORDY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GORDY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GORDY in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GORDY by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GORDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GORDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GORDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GORDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 533 12.87
White (Hispanic) 124 3
Native American/Alaskan 65 1.57
Mixed Race 56 1.35
Asian/Pacific 11 0.27
White (Caucasian) 3,351 80.94

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GORDY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GORDY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GORDY.

Similar names to GORDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORDY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GORDY

The following words are slight variants of GORDY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.